IHP for Active Aging

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Managing today's active older adult communities is challenging. Pressure to show results and be profitable has never been greater, and today's competitive environment makes it important to differentiate your facility from others to attract and retain residents.

The Interactive Health Partner (IHP) is leading the way in wellness programming by offering:

• Fall Prevention Balance Assessments
• Automated Functional Fitness Testing (also known as Senior Fitness Test) and reporting
• Automated Fullerton Advanced Balance, assessment & reporting
• Health Assessment Screening
• Health Metric Assessments and Reporting
• Blood Pressure, Heart Rate, Glucose, Cholesterol & more
• Older Adult Exercise Prescription, Guidance and Monitoring
• System features evidence-based active aging programming
• Target workouts to improve balance and functional fitness
• Center can customize workouts with photos/videos from IHP's extensive exercise library
• Wellness & Fitness Management
• Tracking & reporting
• Improved efficiency in managing your wellness program
• Automated outcomes
• Personalized account access

Several leading active adult facilities and service providers use the IHP. See how!

Fall Prevention Balance Assessments

Medicine and healthcare have evolved into an evidenced-based model of health and fitness programming. The Interactive Health Partner (IHP) has many automated functions and has already done much of the work for you, so you can give your attention to your residents. You have access to proven, fall prevention assessment programs developed by leading researchers. These include: the Functional Fitness Test (also known as Senior Fitness Test) by Roberta Rikli, PhD, and Jessie Jones, PhD and the Fullerton Advance Balance Assessment Short Form and Long Form (4 & 10) by Debra J. Rose, PhD at Cal State Fullerton's Center for Successful Aging. With one click, the IHP system can show assessment results for an individual or group of individuals.



Health Assessment Screenings = Informed Decision - Making

Are you using scientific or medically-based methods and tools to plan and design wellness programming for your residents? Are the classes you offer making a difference in your residents' health and fitness?

Are you spending hours compiling data from various sources to assist in budgetary decision-making? Can you quickly summarize your outcomes to prove your worth, build your budget, or support licensing, certification or accreditation purposes?



As you use the IHP, you'll find the data stored in the system to be very beneficial for making factual, informed decisions quickly and easily.

The IHP is built on a foundation of outcomes analysis. Using the IHP, you can review group aggregate information to better plan and organize, and see where you're making improvements and where you need to make changes. Find answers quickly and easily to questions such as:

• "How much have we improved blood pressure in our residents in the last quarter?" (Health Metrics summary report)
• "How much have we improved fall risk in the last quarter?" (Functional Fitness Test summary report)
• "Have residents improved their Functional Independence?" (Functional Fitness Test)
• "What is the average BMI of our residents today, and what was it a year ago?"

Exercise Prescription, Guidance and Monitoring

Wellness/Activity Directors can implement medically appropriate programming based on outcomes identified in the IHP reports. Not only are testing results appropriate to monitor your residents' progress, they are also valuable in making better decisions regarding what programming to offer. For example, poor scores on the Functional Fitness Test may lead to offering balance programming because there is a large group of residents at risk of losing their functional independence. The more you can 'preserve' the health and fitness of your residents, the less money you'll spend on managing illness and injuries, thus improving your bottom line.

With the IHP you can review your community like never before, execute decisions in the best interest of your residents, and preserve the greatest profit margin because healthier residents translates into a healthier bottom line.

The IHP is uniquely designed to allow you to build and prescribe custom exercises and exercise programs for your residents. Our exercise calendar allows you to assign exercises to individuals or groups of individuals.



IHP in Use at Active Adult Living Facilities

Evangelical Homes of Michigan realized they needed to be progressive with their care and implement a new model of senior living due to the economic housing crunch in Michigan. Fewer older adults being able to sell their home, and loss of retirement income in the stock market created unique needs in the lives of older adults. Evangelical Homes of Michigan recognized this need and developed a solution to meet the challenges of older adults that could not afford to move into a retirement community but desperately needed the services of the retirement community. Evangelical Homes of Michigan decided to expand their reach beyond their center doors, and provide health and wellness programming to older adults right in their home. This provided a tremendous health benefit to older adults in the community and allowed Evangelical Homes of Michigan to expand their market reach to older adults in their area. Read how Evangelical Homes of Michigan uses IHP.



"The Interactive Health Partner system allows us to touch each person individually, whether it is through their exercise programming, assessments, health history, vital statistics, goal setting, and or educational information. The system has been very easy to teach to our campus, even those who have never used a computer! The system allows us to track and maintain a history that is available to the user at anytime. The system enables us to provide a great personalized service to over 400 users with minimal staff hours."

     -Jackie Halbin, Wellness Director

Read Jackie's full story about the benefits of the IHP to Lakeview Village